Following up on (True|False) vs Bool::$!

2008-12-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
to debug Segmentation fault Suggestions on next steps? Assuming I have the problem properly identified, I will be happy to submit an RT, write a test, dive into the PIR ... -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Following up on (True|False) vs Bool::$1

2008-12-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
The subject line should say Bool::$1 instead of Bool::$!, btw; I didn't let go of the shift key fast enough. This is what I get for trying to be clever. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a Rakudo issue, which I found while following up on the p6l

Boolean#perl

2008-12-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
object? Why would qualifying the name give it a different set of methods? -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Parrot doesn't build on OS X

2008-11-01 Thread Mark J. Reed
Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6 -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Known Bug in Rakudo?

2008-10-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
but doesn't honor it; ~$point still returns the generic obj:Point. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Parrot on mobile platforms?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture…), any VM-based app might be verboten on the iPhone. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #60044] [BUG?] rethrow just throwing?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
catch and then rethrow an exception, I'd expect the stack trace to continue to show the location of the original throw, not the location of the rethrow. I agree. Otherwise, what's the point of 'rethrow'? -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should the Length of string_substr() Ever Be Negative?

2008-10-05 Thread Mark J. Reed
assumptions.) But sting_substr is called directly from opcodes, then the simpler way is that his arguments reflects directly those of the registers implied, and make all checks and conversions desired inside the function. -- Salu2 -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Mark J. Reed

Re: Should the Length of string_substr() Ever Be Negative?

2008-10-05 Thread Mark J. Reed
behavior is just way too counterintuitive IMO. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dumb questions about array slicing...

2008-09-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
Good point on the other special subscript values. The PIR as currently being generated couldn't work anyway, since the subscript is being put in an Int register instead of a PMC one. On 9/30/08, Moritz Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: I didn't see anything in the issue

Dumb questions about array slicing...

2008-09-29 Thread Mark J. Reed
to generate PIR that handles it more manually? -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #58726] [PATCH] add the option encoding to Configure.pl

2008-09-13 Thread Mark J. Reed
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Re: encoding vs charset

2008-07-15 Thread Mark J. Reed
whether the surrounding source code is UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, Big-5, whatever; if the source language wants to work differently, it's up to its parser to convert. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: encoding vs charset

2008-07-15 Thread Mark J. Reed
:\xab\x65 then? I'd want \xab and \x65 to represent two codepoints, not encoding bytes for a single codepoint. And that shall be the distinguished from: U+AB65: ꭥ by what? Pm leo -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Renaming Plumhead

2008-06-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
the ashes of Plumhead? ;-} -- Bob -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Basic help navigating individual characters of a string

2008-04-25 Thread Mark J. Reed
, you don't need printf most of the time: print The first character of the string is ', substr($str,0,1), '\n; ...although it is arguably clearer in this case. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [tutorial] pct tutorial language: Squaak implementation

2008-03-25 Thread Mark J. Reed
this earlier, having attached files separately; apparently that wasn't accepted maybe because it's executable code?, so now a zipped version) kjs -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Character sets PDD ready for review

2008-03-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
:# ... now some tests which fail to compose the class [4] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/svn/parrot/leo ./parrot t/op/string_cs_46.pasm ___ǰ___ 7 8 8 7 -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
know about blocks and lists and such. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PCT] PAST nodes for goto and friends, labels.

2008-01-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
Sorry if I'm missing something here, since I haven't dived into the innards of Parrot, but I thought control flow in Parrot was based on continuations? Presumably 'control exceptions' are really just lexicaly-scoped exceptions, and exceptions are in turn just outgoing-only continuations. If you

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r25172 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-01-23 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Jan 23, 2008 8:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + So if you see the integer stream C0x69 0x30F, it +needs to be replaced by C0x30F. Typo - that second 0x30F should be 0x209. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone has perl 1 docs?

2008-01-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
? The attachment doesn't seem to have made it into the archive there... -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] fix for pcre test if libpcre installed in non-standard location

2007-12-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
All tests successful, 1 subtest skipped. Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.13 cusr + 0.05 csys = 0.18 CPU) Is this output reasonable? Is it what I should expect? kid51 -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Struct copying

2007-06-21 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 6/21/07, Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We now have STRUCT_COPY(dest,src) and STRUCT_COPY_N(dest,src,n) for all your struct-copying needs. Wait! Wait! It should be src, THEN dest! duck impending barrage of fruit -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: memcpy

2007-06-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
be a pointer, and things might gang agley there, but pointers getting set to the wrong type of pointee is a pretty common problem, and one that I'm happy to have some runtime support in locating. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: memcpy

2007-06-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
the compiler will automatically complain if the two pointers don't point to the same type of object. AFAICT, the wrapping around the assignment in the macro just makes sure that there aren't any side effects - but the only reason side effects would be a problem is that it's a macro... -- Mark J. Reed

Re: [perl #41168] graceful no compiler error message?

2007-06-05 Thread Mark J. Reed
with chromatic -- I'd simply add that the cc_build() function should be improved to have a meaningful return value, not that it should be avoided. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #43134] [TODO] Find a generalised way to determin location of Fink

2007-06-05 Thread Mark J. Reed
. Is a system() call legit at that point of the config? Because I can think of no reliable, general way of looking for fink other than trying to run the fink command... -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Coding Standard Questions

2006-10-17 Thread Mark J. Reed
counter = 0; Sure. Even pre-ANSI C allows that. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #40543] [NEW] Test for space after curly braces

2006-10-16 Thread Mark J. Reed
thought when I read Paul's message Death to trailing whitespace! -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [perl #40543] [NEW] Test for space after curly braces

2006-10-16 Thread Mark J. Reed
(whose spacing you can control with the appropriately-named 'tabstop' option). Once expandtab is on, you can issue a :retab command to replace any existing hard tabs with spaces. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Proposed patch

2006-08-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
installable_parrot records -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed patch

2006-08-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
?? Not that I see any problem applying this patch, regardless. On Aug 30, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: Currently compilation fails on OS X with gcc/g++, because -bundle as the first argument gets interpreted as a request to run the undle version of the compiler. It works fine as a later

Re: PMC Methods, Inheritance, and User-visible Classes

2006-08-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
of backward compatibility. I also really hate the HTML-multivalued-input-names-have-[] hack. And I'm not fond of the arrays are just hashes with numeric keys philosophy (which it shares with JavaScript). But other than that, I love PHP. ;-) -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: #ParrotSketch Meeting 29AUG06

2006-08-29 Thread Mark J. Reed
not just me... On 8/29/06, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Transcript now available at: http://www.parrotcode.org/misc/parrotsketch-logs/ irclog.parrotsketch-200608/irclog.parrotsketch.20060829 -- Will Coke Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: #ParrotSketch Meeting 29AUG06

2006-08-29 Thread Mark J. Reed
an option in the resulting dialog. -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dumb Configure.pl question

2006-08-25 Thread Mark J. Reed
, the reason C++ isn't linking is that it needs some libraries that aren't included in the Perl5 $libs, and I can't figure out how to get Configure.pl to add to that. I would expect it to honor LDFLAGS or LIBPATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH or something... -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dumb Configure.pl question

2006-08-25 Thread Mark J. Reed
loader flags for shared libraries --lex=(lexer)Use the given lexical analyzer generator --yacc=(parser) Use the given parser generator Hope this helps. On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote: I'm trying to build parrot on OS X 10.3. It gets as afar as Determining

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2004-07-28 at 20:55:28, Piers Cawley wrote: What's a math teacher? Oh, come now. You may refuse to *use* the Leftpondian short form, but pretending not to *recognize* it is a bit much. :) -- Mark REED| CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-10 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2003-12-10 at 15:05:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Oh yes, if you've not been following, ^op (ie, the vector operators) has become op which is, if nothing else, a right swine to write in a POD C escape. Eh, op is just a hack for people who can't type C»op«, like ANSI C